On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 15:19, rusi <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Thank you rusi! Tell me, where can I read more about the advantages of >> each finger? Googling turns up nothing. My intention is to improved >> the Noah ergonomic keyboard layout. Thanks! > > Dont know how to answer that! I only have my experience to go by :-) > > If you've spent a childhood and many of your adult hours breaking your > hands on Czerny > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Czerny > and Hanon eg exercise 4 > http://www.hanon-online.com/the-virtuoso-pianist/part-i/exercise-n-4/ > you will come to similar conclusions. > > I should warn however that even for a modern electronic piano the > action is larger and heavier than a typical (computer) keyboard and > for a real/acoustic piano with a foot long slice of wood moved for > each keystroke its probably an order of magnitude heavier. > > So its not exactly clear how much the experience of one carries over > to the other >
Thanks. From testing small movements with my fingers I see that the fourth finger is in fact a bit weaker than the last finger, but more importantly, it is much less dexterous. Good to know! -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
